The future of search … I am a search addict. I'm naturally inquisitive - I've always liked finding things out. Plus, I've worked at Google on search for the past 9 years and 3 months. Of course I search - a lot. Yet I would guess that on any given day, I only do about 20% of the searches that I could.

A Stock-Killer Fueled by Algorithm After Algorithm — What made a six-year-old article about a bankruptcy filing by United Airlines reappear on Wall Street traders' screens on Monday as if it were fresh news, prompting a sell-off that erased $1 billion in the company's market value in a matter of minutes?

Yahoo announces social networking app for iPhone — Updated at 3:50 p.m. PDT with further detail and information about Blueprint programming tools for mobile devices. — SAN FRANCISCO—Yahoo on Wednesday released a preview version of a free new iPhone application called OneConnect …

TC50: Birdpost and Closet Couture, Two Social Networks for Birds — The first two companies to present at this afternoon's Vertical Social Networking session proved that niche social networks can be exciting, even for people outside of their respective niches. — On paper, a social network for bird watchers sounds like a joke.

YouTube Draws 5 Billion U.S. Online Video Views in July 2008 — Americans Watch 558 Million Hours of Online Video During the Month, According to comScore Video Metrix — comScore (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released July 2008 data from the comScore Video Metrix service …

There's No Place Like Home — Also available in: , Português, Deutsch — Starting today, we're rolling out a sneak preview of the new Flickr home page. — Why all the change? Well, that's easy: Everybody knows the best part of Flickr is uploading photos and getting feedback from the community.

Apple senior execs settle options case for $14M — Apple senior execs and directors settle options lawsuit; company gets millions out of it — NEW YORK (AP) — Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs and several other senior executives and board members have agreed to settle a lawsuit that claimed …

Email becomes a dangerous distraction — Back in the early 1990s, email was a privilege granted only to those who could prove they needed it. Now it has turned into a nuisance that's costing companies millions. We may feel that we have it under control, but not only do we check email …

Photos: Hands-on with the new Apple iPod classic — We're huge fans of the iPod classic. When you rip all your CDs in Apple Lossless format, have about 30 podcast subscriptions, an archive of music videos, and insist on carrying the whole lot around with you, the 160GB model is the only way to go.

5 Reasons to Move Your Startup Out of Silicon Valley — All tech startups need just a few ingredients to germinate: sophisticated money; first-rate technology universities; and a few template successes (a Google or a Facebook, and so on) to encourage founders to get off their duffs.

Amazon.com to uncork wine sales — Amazon.com customers will be able to buy wine produced by U.S. wineries on the e-tailer's Web site as early as this month, a spokesman for the Napa Valley Vintners Association said Wednesday. — Amazon has been working with the nonprofit group …

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